Audiovisual Legal Deposit register
If 'no information' is shown for your country please contribute by completing the simple form at www.iasa-web.org/legal-deposit/questionnaire
This register is an online database of Legal Deposit for audiovisual materials, country by country. The data is being "crowdsourced" by IFLA and IASA members and by other contributors from the audiovisual archiving profession.
Click a country name for more details about legal deposit in that country.
This register is not intended to collate comprehensive information, nor can IASA and IFLA vouch for its accuracy; however, the register gives an indication of the existence (or not) of legal deposit in each country and links to further information. We hope that such information on worldwide practices will help individual countries to obtain or improve their own legal deposit legislation.
If no information is available about a particular country, can you help? Complete the short questionnaire at www.iasa-web.org/legal-deposit/questionnaire and your information will be added here (you may use the same form to submit corrections). Please note that we need information even for those countries that have no legal deposit legislation for audiovisual materials.
Country |
Legal deposit for printed materials | Legal deposit for AV materials | AV materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Djibouti | No information | No information | |
| Dominica | No information | No information | |
| Dominican Republic | No information | No information | |
| Ecuador | No information | No information | |
| Egypt | No information | No information | |
| El Salvador | No information | No information | |
| Equatorial Guinea | No information | No information | |
| Eritrea | No information | No information | |
| Estonia | Yes, since 1998 | Law under development | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Websites or other internet-based content |
| Ethiopia | No information | No information | |
| Faroe Islands | No information | No information | |
| Fiji | No information | No information | |
| Finland | Yes, since 1707 | Yes | National Library: Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Computer games; Websites or other internet-based content. National Audiovisual Institute: Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; TV broadcasts |
| France | Yes, since 1537 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; TV broadcasts; Computer games; Websites or other internet-based content |
| French Guiana | No information | No information | |
| French Polynesia | No information | No information | |
| Gabon | No information | No information | |
| Gambia | No information | No information | |
| Georgia | No information | No information | |
| Germany | Yes, 1991 (before 1991 also for BRD and DDR) | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Websites or other internet-based content |
| Ghana | No information | No information | |
| Greece | No information | No information | |
| Greenland | Yes, since 1980 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) |
| Grenada | No information | No information | |
| Guatemala | No information | No information | |
| Guinea | No information | No information | |
| Guinea-Bissau | No information | No information | |
| Guyana | No information | No information | |
| Haiti | No information | No information | |
| Honduras | No information | No information | |
| Hong Kong | No information | No information | |
| Hungary | Yes, since 1997 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.) ; Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; TV broadcasts |
| Iceland | Yes, 1886 | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.) , Film, Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.), Radio broadcasts, TV broadcasts, Websites or other internet-based content |
| India | No information | No information | |
| Indonesia | No information | No information | |
| Iran | Yes, unknown | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Film; Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Radio broadcasts; TV broadcasts; Websites or other internet-based content |
| Iraq | No information | No information | |
| Ireland | Yes, Since 1801, as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; 1922, Irish Free State; 1937, Republic of Ireland. | No | |
| Isle of Man | No information | No information | |
| Israel | Yes | Yes | Film; Digital files of cinematic works - born digital works |
| Italy | No information | No information | |
| Jamaica | No information | No information | |
| Japan | No information | No information | |
| Jordan | No information | No information | |
| Kazakhstan | No information | No information | |
| Kenya | No information | No information | |
| Kuwait | No information | No information | |
| Kyrgyzstan | No information | No information | |
| Laos | No information | No information | |
| Latvia | Yes | Yes | Sound recordings (CD, audio book, etc.); Video recordings (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.); Websites or other internet-based content; Multimedia materials on physical carriers, such as CD-ROM, DVD-ROM; online publications (such as downloadable sound recordings) |
